title: Learning to navigate in a three-dimensional world: from bees to primates.
abstract: We discuss the idea that environmental factors influence the neural mechanisms that evolved to enable navigation, and propose that a capacity to learn different spatial relationship rules through experience may contribute to bicoded processing. Recent experiments show that free-flying bees can learn abstract spatial relationships, and we propose that this could be combined with optic flow processing to enable three-dimensional navigation.
authors.forename: Adrian G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Dyer
authors.forename: Marcello G P
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Rosa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013037:Spatial Behavior